Zurbrick v. Woodhead

SIMONS, Circuit Judge.

Once more we are impelled to direct attention to the toll in human anguish which so often follows that literal reading of the Immigration Act by which every departure from the United States, however brief and temporary, and pursuant to no intention to -relinquish domicile, constitutes subsequent return a new entry, subjecting the unsuspecting to exclusion or deportation. But the law is clear, and however cruel the result, we have no recourse but protest and recommendation.

The present appeal is by the Director of Immigration from an order discharging an alien from custody…